Year: 1968 Country: Cuba Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Starring: Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados The 3rd and final planned film by Gutiérrez Alea I was to watch this month is by far the best. Taking place in 1961 after the Bay of Pigs invasion, a man in his late thirties wanders around Havana rather aimlessly, tryingContinue reading “Memorias Del Subdesarrollo (Memories Of Underdevelopment)”
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Fresa y Chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate)
Year: 1993 Country: Cuba Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Starring: Vladimir Cruz, Jorge Perugorría, Mirta Ibarra In 1979 Havana, two men meet. One is straight, idealistic and a strict communist while the other is and gay, individualistic and liberal . The two men eventually forge a close friendship, and the film tackles politics, LGBT rights andContinue reading “Fresa y Chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate)”
Las Doce Sillas (The Twelve Chairs)
Year: 1962 Country: Cuba Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Starring: Enrique Santisteban, Reynaldo Miravalles, René Sánchez An aristocratic lady on her deathbed confesses both to a priest and to her nephew that she could not bear giving up all of her wealth to socialist revolutionaries in post-revolution Cuba, and hid jewels in one of twelve identicalContinue reading “Las Doce Sillas (The Twelve Chairs)”
Cinema Del Peppel 